Eight of the 17, including five Buddhist monks, said they had been arrested, beaten and tortured. notarized.
They also must register with City Hall or, for those wishing confidentiality, with a notarized statement filed with an independent third party, such as a private attorney.
But in the end, he said, his firm agreed to handle a document that was notarized with a phony date.
Among those documents are notarized residency records and election petitions the younger Savage filed with the Illinois Board of Elections last year.